• Fire Chief Syroka, right, speaks to the city council audience with his family beside him.
    Fire Chief Syroka, right, speaks to the city council audience with his family beside him.
  • Deputy Fire Chief Ron Kay is sworn in.
    Deputy Fire Chief Ron Kay is sworn in.
  • Training Captain Greg Yingling is sworn in.
    Training Captain Greg Yingling is sworn in.

    Rossford city council officially swore in Richard Syroka, who is coming out of retirement from the Toledo Fire Department with 33 years of experience, as fire chief during their regular meeting on February 10.

    “I know the city of Rossford deserves a great fire department,” said Syroka, pledging to Rossford’s firefighters that he was “all in” on having the fire department staffed by six people a day…